Brilliant. Instead of investigating right wing terror in #ColoradoSprings (leading to mass shooting at #ClubQ ) #FBI and CSPD spent a year infiltrating housing and social justice activists. Intercept’s Trevor Aaronson details lawsuit against law enforcement agencies who promote a #CopCity compound in CS. #DemocracyNow Part 1: FBI & Colorado Springs Police Sued for Targeting & Spying on Racial Justice Protesters https://www.democracynow.org/2023/8/3/blm_protests_fbi_infiltration_entrapment

#ClubQ killer sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4068192-club-q-shooting-suspect-pleads-guilty-to-5-counts-of-murder/

Anderson Lee Aldrich, the shooter who killed five people and injured several others last year at a #ColoradoSprings #LGBTQ nightclub, Club Q, has been sentenced to 5 consecutive life terms after pleading guilty.

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/27/1184461284/club-q-shooter-is-sentenced-to-5-consecutive-life-terms-after-pleading-guilty

#news #ClubQ #LGBTQHate #hatecrime

Suspect in Gay Nightclub Mass Shooting Expected to Plead Guilty https://politicaliq.com/2023/06/26/suspect-in-gay-nightclub-mass-shooting-expected-to-plead-guilty/ #ClubQ #LGBTQ #MassShooting #AssaultWeapons #gunreform #AndersonAldrich #Aldrich #ColoradoSprings #politicaliq #news #politics

#ClubQ. Unbelievable!

"Senior pastor Steve Holt of the Road at Chapel Hills, a local church, had preached transgender identity is "demonic" and the result of "massive evil." Similarly, Scott Bottoms, a pastor at the Church at Briargate who was elected as a local state representative in November, called drag performers "pedophiles" and then added the death penalty is "too nice for pedophiles.”

Across right-wing media, the hateful word of choice these days is “groomer”—which shamelessly and wrongfully implies children are the sexual targets of not just the LGBTQ+ community but of anyone seeking to educate around questions of gender identity and sexual orientation."
https://open.substack.com/pub/thinkbigpicture/p/week-big-picture-march-22?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android

The shooter in the #MassShooting of #JehovasWitnesses in Hamburg, Germany was a former member of the cult. He took his own life after the shooting. 👉 https://amp.dw.com/en/jehovahs-witness-hall-shooting-in-hamburg-what-we-know/a-64941116

The shooter in the #MassShooting of #LGBQT patrons at #ClubQ in Colorado Springs was a member of the Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormon cult) and the grandson of a California state representative espousing #DarkMAGA (also a cult) hate.

See 👀 the difference?

The accused #ClubQ shooter is the grandson of a San Diego Republican politician who also served for years as the mayor of Santee:

https://www.truthorfiction.com/is-the-suspected-colorado-shooter-the-grandson-of-a-gop-california-state-assemblyman/

#Extremist-Linked Mass Killings Spiked in Past Decade https://politicaliq.com/2023/02/23/extremist-linked-mass-killings-spiked-in-past-decade/ #Extremism #DomesticTerrorists #BuffaloMassacre #ClubQ #politicaliq #news #politics

To the surprise of absolutely no one, the suspect in the Colorado Springs LGBTQ club shooting ran a neo-Nazi website and regularly used gay and racial slurs online.

This new information was disclosed during testimony by a police detective at a hearing to determine whether the shooter can be charged with hate crimes.

I'm sure the National Review and every conservative pundit that attacked @oneunderscore__ for his reporting will be posting apologies for their reprehensible behavior.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/colorado-lgbtq-club-shooting-suspect-ran-neo-nazi-site-testimony-revea-rcna71754

#ColoradoSprings #ClubQ #Shooting #Guns #Crime #Murder #Hatecrime #Hate #LGBT #LGBTQ #USPol #News #NBCNews #MinyvonneBurke

Detective: Shooter at Colorado Springs gay nightclub ran neo-Nazi website https://apnews.com/article/colorado-springs-crime-hate-crimes-d2379dce03c66ea3bc0faa2c5ffb7c21
#lgbtq #lgbt #gay #clubq #colorado

Police: Club Q shooter tried to blame man who subdued them

Anderson Lee Aldrich, who is nonbinary and uses the pronouns they and them, tried to pin the shooting on a man who subdued them while also claiming the shooter was hiding.

https://sentinelcolorado.com/news/state-and-region/colorado-news/police-club-q-shooter-tried-to-blame-man-who-subdued-him/

#ClubQ #GunViolence

Club Q shooter motive could be revealed Wednesday

“It’s not a whodunit. It’s not a what happened. It’s a why did it happen”

http://ow.ly/jqPN50MZ9MH

#ClubQ #GunViolence

I would love to... digging further. #clubq

Colorado LGBTQ club to reopen after deady shooting

https://youtu.be/OoEVP2O25lc

#news #politics #uspolitics #colorado #clubq #lgbtq

My year in 24 Minutes: This 24 Minutes podcast episode with Robert C. Smith was our response to the Nov. 19, 2022, mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

https://24hournation.com/gun-violence/what-businesses-must-do/

#24HourNation #24Minutes #podcast #RobertSmith #NightclubSecurityConsultants #MassShooting #ClubQ #GunViolence #Security #Nightlife

In 2022, there was widespread discrimination against #transgender people

Even liberal outlets such as the #NewYorkTimes contributed to #discrimination in opinion pieces

Every day this year, remember one transgender person who lost their life.

None of these #trans people should have died. We need to stop the hate to save lives.

Today, please remember Kelly Loving, a 40-year-old #transwoman who was killed in Colorado Springs in the #ClubQ shooting on November 29, 2022.

https://www.hrc.org/news/hrc-mourns-kelly-loving-loving-friend-caring-person-killed-in-club-q-shooting

"To the politicians & activists who accuse #LGBTQ people of grooming children and being abusers, shame on you."-MICHAEL ANDERSON

House Oversight Committee chair, Rep Carolyn Maloney sees the #ClubQ attack as part of a broader trend of violence & intimidation. She says that includes a rise in #antiLGBTQ bills in statehouses & in Congress, introduced mainly by Republicans. "These hateful pieces of legislation have fueled dangerous rise in extreme anti-LGBTQI rhetoric."

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/14/1142894290/house-oversight-committee-holds-a-hearing-on-anti-lgbtq-extremism-and-violence

Discrimination against #transgender people was widespread in 2022.

Liberal outlets such as the #NewYorkTimes even contributed to this #discrimination in opinion pieces.

Every day this year, remember one transgender person who lost their life.

None of these #trans people should have died. We need to stop the hate and save lives.

Today, please remember Daniel Aston, a 28-year-old #transman who was killed in Colorado Springs in the #ClubQ shooting on November 29, 2022.

https://www.hrc.org/news/hrc-mourns-daniel-aston-beloved-son-master-of-silly-business-killed-in-club-q-shooting

This is so fucked up. Also, I’ll bet the #security measures get less effective the farther you are from the orbit of #RuPaulsDragRace.
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/27/1138674412/drag-show-threats-bans-club-q-shooting

#SupportLocalDrag #DragQueens #DragKings #DragPerformers #DragStoryHour #DragStoryTime #DragQueenStoryHour #DragQueenStoryTime #drag #LGBTQ #RPDR #DragRace #ClubQ #ColoradoSpringsMassacre

WAPO—This year’s surge in #anti-LGBTQ #legislation, threats and #protests — punctuated by the #killing of five people at the #gay bar #ClubQ in Colorado last month — has brought #grief and exacerbated #fear among LGBTQ Americans.
State #legislators #targeted #gay and #trans rights, while armed demonstrators threatened drag events and Pride celebrations, and children’s hospitals faced harassment organized by an #anti-LGBTQ social media campaign.

Gift 🎁 article https://wapo.st/3GkVjMs